Long Coat

Credits

Name: Long Coat

Country: Ruanda

Year of publication: 2009

Format: DVD

Color: color

Language : OF m. engl. UT

Duration: 62 Minuten

Direction: Bamporiki, Edouard

Abstract

The feature film opens with a memorial service for the victims of the Rwandan genocide committed by the Hutus on the Tutsis. At the memorial service a young man meets a former friend from his neighbourhood. She is in mourning as she has never been able to find out why her father disappeared back then. The young man knows more…
Director Edouard Bamporiki: “Now we have had 14 years of reconciliation, but we still don’t have unity... We want one day to have truth like in the film, for people to tell us what really happened.”